Last December I took the opportunity to drive the length of North Island with my...
						
				As some of you might have noticed, it was Wikipedia’s birthday a week and a...
						
				Six posts over seven weeks may seem a lot to devote to the wrecking of...
						
				The third stage of the extinction events I’ve been cataloguing here began with the settlement...
						
				No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone...
						
				Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my...
						
				“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the...
						
				“I will not portray islands as outstanding natural laboratories because not many of them are...
						
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